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around the sequester and how the pentagon budget is going to proceed not only over this next year but over the next few years. what's it going to mean between congress and the pentagon once chuck hagel's in charge after they made him go through this? >> well, if the president thought that by having a republican in the cabinet at the pentagon he was going to buy any kind of loyalty or relationship with republican senators, he can think again about that. because this simply isn't happening. chuck hagel is not going to have relationships with the people who have just humiliated him to this degree. secondly, he was weak eened by s own poor performance. and whether he was playing rope-a-dope and this was a deliberate tactic, as they say, to not pick a fight and get into an argument in a public forum with john mccain and the others on the committee that he would then have to work with, he didn't fight back enough claire mccaskill and other democrats, claire you saw on our show and others saying look, he clearly is better at asking questions than answering questions but still came strongly t
around the sequester and how the pentagon budget is going to proceed not only over this next year but over the next few years. what's it going to mean between congress and the pentagon once chuck hagel's in charge after they made him go through this? >> well, if the president thought that by having a republican in the cabinet at the pentagon he was going to buy any kind of loyalty or relationship with republican senators, he can think again about that. because this simply isn't happening....
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look, there is guys like ash carter who is the current number two at the pentagon who knows how that place works inside and out, and is a nuclear freakin' physicist for real. so i think he could execute the cuts just fine too. >> without the different levels of political liability? does it insulate hagel at all? >> it doesn't seem like it's insulating him right now. i'm not buying it for later in. >> if john brennan gets confirmed to lead the cia, what do you think that would mean for that agency going forward? would you expect any inflect breezy the panetta era there? >> i think that makes the cia maybe the most important shop in town, right? so theoretically, the director of national intelligence, jim clapper sits over the cia and the 15 other intelligence agencies. you know, it was clapper who said to david petraeus, look, bro, you got to go after his affair. it's pretty hard to imagine jim clapper saying something similar to john brennan, who has been sitting with the president in the oval office day after day, directing drone strikes, also working on cyber issues which are very
look, there is guys like ash carter who is the current number two at the pentagon who knows how that place works inside and out, and is a nuclear freakin' physicist for real. so i think he could execute the cuts just fine too. >> without the different levels of political liability? does it insulate hagel at all? >> it doesn't seem like it's insulating him right now. i'm not buying it for later in. >> if john brennan gets confirmed to lead the cia, what do you think that would...
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who know where is she'll come back after her work at the pentagon. finding their own pace. very interesting. >> andrea mitchell. nbc's chief foreign correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" 1:00 p.m. on msnbc. thank you so, so much. >>> lots to come, including a visit from nbc's richard engel. richard has a genuine scoop tonight about a very controversial u.s. policy. we're going to let him snael out for you tonight. you won't have seen it anywhere else. that's coming up. stay with us. i'm a firefighter. i'm a carpenter. i'm an accountant. a mechanical engineer. and i shop at walmart. truth is, over sixty percent of america shops at walmart every month. i find what i need, at a great price. and the money i save goes to important things. braces for my daughter. a little something for my son's college fund. when people look at me, i hope they see someone building a better life. vo: living better: that's the real walmart. yeah... try new alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. [ ma
who know where is she'll come back after her work at the pentagon. finding their own pace. very interesting. >> andrea mitchell. nbc's chief foreign correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" 1:00 p.m. on msnbc. thank you so, so much. >>> lots to come, including a visit from nbc's richard engel. richard has a genuine scoop tonight about a very controversial u.s. policy. we're going to let him snael out for you tonight. you won't have seen it anywhere else....
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. >>> right at the top of a >>> right at the top of a pentagon press conference today, the army chief of staff announced big news for the u.s. army. right now there are 45 combat brigades of active u.s. duty soldiers, but tonight, the army announced they are cutting them down to 33 brigades as part of an overall to cut the army, they are cutting out 12 of them. even after cutting 80,000 troops out of the army we'll still have an army that is 10,000 soldiers larger than the force we had on 9/11. today, they announced a major attack in kabul, specifically one of the parts in kabul that is supposed to be one of the safest parts of the city, where the u.s. embassy is, and the nato headquarters is. one of two taliban vehicles made it through that area of the supposedly secure capitol. the second taliban vehicle was stopped and that is when the taliban fighters started to shoot and then blew up one of their vehicles. this was in broad daylight, early this morning, in supposedly the safest and most heavily guarded place in the country. the taliban claimed credit for it, saying their real tar
. >>> right at the top of a >>> right at the top of a pentagon press conference today, the army chief of staff announced big news for the u.s. army. right now there are 45 combat brigades of active u.s. duty soldiers, but tonight, the army announced they are cutting them down to 33 brigades as part of an overall to cut the army, they are cutting out 12 of them. even after cutting 80,000 troops out of the army we'll still have an army that is 10,000 soldiers larger than the...
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the headline news out of brussels today was a very terse statement from the pentagon spokesman. it was kind of strange. he was essentially clarifying, hey, whatever you heard from the germans earlier today, that was not true. this is the statement. the reports that the u.s. told allies that we are considering 8,000 to 12,000 u.s. troops after 2014 are not correct. a range of 8,000 to 12,000 troops was discussed, but it was discussed as the possible size of the overall nato mission, not the u.s. contribution. ah, important clarification. so the defense minister from germany had apparently told reporters that 8 to 12,000 troops was how many troops america was going to keep in afghanistan. everybody thought that was very big news since that's not what we heard hear at home at all. maybe that is how the german guy understood it, but it is apparently not the way that leon panetta meant it. that was the headline out of brussels today. those troops, that's nato combined, that's not just us. that was the headline. the other news of course was that representing the united states and appa
the headline news out of brussels today was a very terse statement from the pentagon spokesman. it was kind of strange. he was essentially clarifying, hey, whatever you heard from the germans earlier today, that was not true. this is the statement. the reports that the u.s. told allies that we are considering 8,000 to 12,000 u.s. troops after 2014 are not correct. a range of 8,000 to 12,000 troops was discussed, but it was discussed as the possible size of the overall nato mission, not the u.s....